BOONE, N.C. -Police say a local man is dead and two other passengers hospitalized after a small plane crashed on a golf course in the North Carolina mountains.
Police in the town of Boone said the plane crashed early Monday afternoon at the Boone Golf Club. Authorities said they were withholding the names of the victims until their families were notified, adding the dead man was well known in the college town.
The two survivors were flown to hospitals in Winston-Salem and Johnson City, Tennessee, for treatment.
Police say witnesses reported the plane was in apparent trouble shortly after taking off from an airport a few miles away and clipped the tops of trees before crashing on the golf course.
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